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The issues raised and discussed in this interview include: the question of relevance/irrelevance of Marx’s texts and of Marxism, Leninism and derivative ideologies in the context of the historical experiences of the USSR, PRC and similar regimes; the interrelationships of partocratic and academic Marxisms; Marx’s Das Kapital and related preparatory materials; the range of Marx’s investigations and the publication…

Ever since the collapse of the Mughal Empire in India, the modern era began in this part of the world with the gradual introduction of English colonial rule since 1757. With the exit of these colonial rulers the old hegemonic castes returned to power. Some of the subordinate castes are sporadically contesting this power here and there.The indigenous people, however, continue to be deceived by all the social groups…

This is an interview conducted about various issues related to the studies leading to the publication of the second revised edition (Delhi 2018) of the complete English translation of К.Маркс, Математические рукописи (Москва 1968). It was published in the Janaswartha Barta (Kolkata), Sharad Sankhya, 2019: 43-46.

This volume contains some notes and excerpts reflecting: (1) Marx’s incomplete study of inorganic and organic chemistry; and of static and current electricity for some possible future use; and, (2) Engels’s study of some issues of physics and ecology related to what was published as the Dialectics of Nature, after his death. In view of the unfinished character of these studies, any analysis of these notes and…

This volume contains some notes and excerpts reflecting: (1) Marx’s incomplete study of inorganic and organic chemistry; and of static and current electricity for some possible future use; and, (2) Engels’s study of some issues of physics and ecology related to what was published as the Dialectics of Nature, after his death. In view of the unfinished character of these studies, any analysis of these notes and…

This is the first volume of the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe [MEGA2], edited under the auspices of the Internationale Marx-Engels-Stiftung (IMES), constituted after the withering away of the GDR in 1989 and that of the USSR in 1990, to continue the publication of the works of Marx and Engels in the original languages. This volume was published by the Akademie Verlag of Berlin. It consists of two books. One book…

Karl Marx’s unfinished critique of political economy is oriented towards an Aufhebung [sublation] of classical political economy, for opening up the frontiers of its future as a science, to facilitate the self-emancipation of the wage-labourer. He divided his corresponding task into 6 topics: capital, landed property, wage-labour; the state, foreign trade and, world market. His output continues to be published…

This is a report in Bengali on the publication of the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA). It was first published in Mizanur Rahamaner Troimashik Patrika (Dhaka), Volume XXII, No. 74 (2004): 100-123.

Many images of Karl Marx have been  formed through the ideological filters of many marxisms and of the ideologies opposed to them since the middle of the nineteenth century. One such image identifies Karl Marx with the study of  philosophy and political economy. In a parallel image Friedrich Engels is identified with the study of some natural sciences and military affairs. Since the last decades of the twentieth…

These are Bengali translations of some of the letters of Roland Daniels to Karl Marx, written from 08 February to 01 June 1851, containing a narrative on human health, labour, technology, his manuscript titled Mikrokosmos. Entwurf einer physiologischen Anthropologie [Microcosm. Outline of a physiological anthropology], and the need for a new encyclopedia of the sciences.

This volume contains the first Bengali translations of some of the English Works of Rammohun Roy. These include his: Brief Remarks regarding Modern Encroachments on the Ancient Rights of Females according to the Hindu Law of Inheritance (1822); Press Regulation: Memorial to the Supreme Court (1823); Appeal to the King-in-Council (1823); a letter to an unknown addressee on the political and economic evils of the…

It is the script of a talk delivered in Kolkata  on the occasion of release of a Bengali translation of a selection of essays on Social and Political issues by Raja Rammohun Roy (1772-1833). Here the problems of interrelated transformations of the multiple societies of South Asia and those of the rest of the world towards the end of the 20th century are posed and discussed.